Gender differences in metabolic disorders

Gender Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  LeRoith, Derek ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; DIOXYGENASE; ESTROGEN; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LIPID; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; STEROID HORMONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOCYTE; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEREDITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; VASODILATATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62649170274     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2009.02.003     Document Type: Editorial

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